Pornhub prepares to be accessed via VPN from five more states rather than check IDs
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If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do "sine die" which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.
What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.
That thumbnail is more like arse technica
Pornhub should block more states.
Right!? Make this the election that was decided by porn!
May every porn site block every republican-lead district this election season with a full-page message stating that this is a direct result of republican policy. Then link to voting resources.
There's a phrase that used to be used to defend gun rights, 'If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.'
If you make porn illegal only illegal porn will exist. They're not eliminating porn they're just shifting the source of porn to websites that don't care about compliance with US laws.
I would be ENTIRELY unsuprised if we found out these state governments were full of people who bought a lot of VPN company stocks just before the news hit. Particularly Utah. It's practically free money.
the only way to stop a bad guy with porn is with a good guy with porn.
This is 100% true. Its like with weed. People will consume it. They don't care if its illegal. Illegal weed only causes the black market to control everything and fuck up consumers.
Marijuana is much easier to control as it is physical and lingers in the body. It is physical vs digital.
You can copy and download data all day long. It is the same reason why banning encryption will not make encryption go away overnight.
Yeah, but the principle is literally the same.
It literally isn't. Weed leaves a trace everywhere it goes as it is a physical substance
I definitely leave a trace everywhere after watching porn
Fuck them states.
Pornhub will lose more traffic to complying with the nanny bullshit than blocking entire states.
Pornhub's audience is international, and in some countries they are far, far less backwards and socially repressed and Pornhub and similar companies get revenue without any controversy or danger of consequences.
They do NOT need these shitty states that are just going to continue to pearl-clutch and scream about "morality" as if humans aren't sexual creatures.
Your mom is a sexual creature.
In all honesty i can only hope that this forces some people to increase their tech-savviness.
It won't. The average person in America wants the fastest, easiest consumable distraction or pleasure reward and takes no time to learn new things unless it's dangled in front of them in bite-sized, easy-to-follow tutorials with quest-markers and all kinds of sparkles and chimes when they do something correctly.
They will go to some really terrible alternative that costs money. There are a hundred thousand porn sites right now hoping that they become the next big thing from all this.
I miss the Internet when you needed to know wtf you were doing. Now everything is geared for easy, addictive consumption
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they're the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car's in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
If you remove the porn from the internet, there will be one site left, and it will be called Bring Back The Porn.
Shit shit shit, this one's really rolling around. Dr cox? It feels Monty Python, but I'm hearing it in John C McGinley's over affected JD drawl.
It is Dr Cox
VPN companies
Yep, I've been using VPNs for years and the amount of friends who've asked me for recommendations prior to this theocratic legislative fuckery was zero... It's been amusing to see the sudden interest in cybersecurity and digital privacy among my friends and colleagues. Don't get me wrong though, I'm glad they're finally taking an interest in their digital privacy, even if the catalyst is simply wanting porn access.
Porn drives all sorts of technological adoption, so it makes sense if you think about it. If your product enables people to see some titties easier, it's gonna be a success.
VPNs are starting to be required for browsing the internet. The internet is getting ruined.
In tomorrow's world it will be firing up your VPN, your ad-blockers, your anti-viruses, your anti-AI filter, your own AI that you have installed to fight hostile AI's, all to just use the app version of your favorite social media site. Which will be entirely nazis screaming hateful shit.
A little while ago I saw a map of the states where they colored in how likely a state is to pass anti-trans legislation. It was identical to Pornhubs map of how likely people in a state are to search for trans-porn. To the surprise of no one.
Pffftt... projection, schmojection.
Amiright guys?....